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CIGARETTE MACHINE.

(Applicatibn filed Oct. 13, 1900.,

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Patented Mar. l9, I901. E. GEOBGII.

CIGARETTE MACHINE.

(Application filed Oct. 13, 1900.)

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ENlIL GEORGII, OF STUTTGART, GERMANY.

CIGARETTE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670,133, dated March 19, 1901.

Application filed October 13, 1900. Serial No. 32,982. (No model!) I To to whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL GEORGII, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing at Stuttgart, in the Em pire of Germany,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Machin es; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cigarette-machines.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide mechanism whereby cigarettes which are identical in quality, form, structure, and workmanship with hand-made cigarettes can be made automatically.

A further object of the invention is to provide automatic mechanism for the complete manufacture of cigarettes which shall be relatively cheap and economical, and thus be brought within the reach of small establishments, while at the same time being highly desirable for the largest manufacturing enterprises on account of the rapidity of its operation.

These and other objects I realize by providing a machine in which apportioned charges of tobacco are pressed, rolled, and then transferred or forced into wrapper-tubes, which may be supplied to the machine in any desired manner-by hand or, preferably, by automatic mechanism.

The invent ion will first be described in con nection with the accompanying drawings and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken away, of a complete machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same on the line A A, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detail sectional view, partly in elevation, on the line B B, Fig. 6; Fig. 4, a similar view on the line C 0, Fig. 6; Fig. 5, a detail sectional view, partly in elevation, of the filler rolling and transferring or ejecting mechanism; Fig. 6, a detail plan view of the filler rolling and transferring or ejecting mechanism; Figs. 7 and 8, detail sectional views of the filler-rolling mechanism, the former view showing it in its open position andthe latter in its closed position; Fig. 9, a detail sectional view, partly in elevation, of the filler-rolling mechanism, the tobacco-supplying mechanism, and the scraping mechanism, the filler-rolling mechanism being open; Figs. 10 and 11, detail views of the filler-rolling mechanism and the scraper mechanism, the former view showing the filler-rolling mechanism open and the scraping mechanism in the act of pressing the tobacco charge, while the latter view shows the filler-rolling mechanism closed and the scraping mechanism in its inoperative position; Fig. 12, a detail view showing a modified embodiment of the scraping mechanism; Fig. 13, a similar view showing a modified form of the filler-rolling mechanism in which the eccentricity of the eccentric drum is adjustable; Fig. 14, a detail sectional view, partly in elevation, of the filler-rolling mechanism and the scraping mechanism; Fig. 15, a detail view of the cam locking and releasing mechanism; Fig. 16, a developed view of the cam; Fig. 17, a transverse vertical section through the wrapper-supplying mechanism; Fig. 18, a detail view of the means for operating the wrapper-supplying mechanism; Figs. 19 and 20, detail front and side elevations, respectively, of the wrapperclamping mechanism; and Fig. 21, a detail plan view of that portion of the slide 5 which actuates the means for operating the w'rapper-supplying mechanism.

In order to first give a general statement of the machine which has been selected to illustrate the invention in its preferred form, it is to be noted that the same comprises a-fillerrolling mechanism, means for supplying tobacco to the same, a scraper device for removing a charge of tobacco from the tobacco supplying means to the filler-rolling mechanism, (which scraper device preferably is also arranged to press the tobacco while in the tillerrolling mechanism,) and an ejector or transferring device for discharging the rolled filler from the filler-rolling mechanism and preferably for transferring said filler to a wrapper. The above may preferably be combined with means for clamping a wrapper so that it may be held while the filler is being transferred to it and, in the preferred form of my invention, with means for supplying wrappers to the wrapper-clamping means, and for removing the completed cigarettes from the machine.

The wrappers or tubes intended to be used in connection with this machine are usually of paper and are supplied one at a time to the machine which forms the subject of this invention, each wrapper or tube being removed when filled with tobacco. The supplying of these tubes or wrappers one at a time may be done by hand, but preferably by suitable mechanism-such, for example, as the tube supplying, holding, and removing mechanism disclosed in my Patent No. 555,369, dated February 25, 1896.

One of the important features of a machine embodying the preferred form of carrying out my invention consists in arranging the fillertransferring device in the form of an ejector which is arranged to enter the filler-rolling mechanism and discharge or eject the filler therefrom. Preferably I arrange this ejector with a filler-roiling mechanism having a cavity to receive the filler and so arranged and operated that first it will close and then will roll the filler after which the cavity is slightly expanded to reduce the pressure on the filler, so that the ejector may readily eject said filler, and then the fillerrolling mechanism will open to receive a new tobacco charge, the said filler-roller mechanism being retained for a short period in each of said conditions, (7 6., when closed and when opened and also when its cavity is expanded,) during which periods of rest in said conditions other functions of the machine are being performed. For example, when employing a tobacco-feeding mechanism under the preferred embodiment of myinvention while the filler-rolling mechanism is resting in its open condition the scraper is at work sweeping a charge of tobacco into it, when the filler-rolling mechanism is closed the apron is moved longitudinally to roll the filler, and when the cavity of the filler-rolling mechanism is resting in its expanded condition the transferring device or ejector is at work removing the filler, preferably to transfer it to a wrapper, after which the filler-rolling mechanism is again changed to its open condition to receive a new charge and to commence a new cycle of operations.

Other important features will appear in the following description:

Referring to the drawings, and in particular to Figs. 3, 7, 8, and 13, 1 is an irregular eccentric rolling-drum having a projecting portion 1 of maximum radius, adjacentto which is a depression 1 for a purpose hereinafter described. The said drum is fixed on a shaft 8, which is mounted in bearings 154, secured to a bracket d, fixed upon a pair of rails c, resting upon and preferably integral with a bed-plate a. The shaft 8 is provided at one end with a pinion 13, by means of which the eccentric drum 1 is rotated, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

other end to the bed-plate a.

The vertical portion 6 of the bracket cl is provided at each end with bearings 6, in which is mounted a stationary roller 3, while parallel to said roller 3 is a swinging roller 4, journaled in the bearings 7* of a swinging frame 7, having arms 7 pivotally mounted upon the shaft 8, inside the brackets 154, which carry said shaft. The swinging roller 4 is normally held away from the roller 3 in a yielding manner by means of a spring 9, secured at one end to the frame and at the The roller 4 is moved toward the roller 3 by mechanism which will be described hereinafter, and to hold the rollers in their position of nearest approach a latch device is provided, which consists, preferably,of a latch-lever 10, pivoted to one end of the swinging frame 7 and provided with a notch which receives a nose 12, fixed to one end of the vertical portion 6 of the bracket d, the end of the latch-lever 10 projecting some distance beyond the nose 12 for engagement by a latch-releasing device, more fully described hereinafter. The latchlever is yieldingly held downward by a latchspring 11, Fig. 4.

Around the rollers 3 and 4 and around the eccentric drum 1 is passed an endless apron 5, which hangs loosely, so as to form a bight between the rollers 3 and 4, said apron being secured to the eccentric drum 1 in any desired way and preferably by the following means: The eccentric drum is provided with a cylindrical opening parallel to its axis, which opening is extended to the periphery of the drum by means of a slot. The apron 5 is folded back through the slot and is reflexed against the wall of the cylindrical opening, against which it is firmly pressed by means of a key 2, preferably triangular in cross-section.

In order to avoid the necessity for replacing the eccentric drum by another of larger eccentricity when it is desired to make cigarettes of a smaller diameter, the eccentricdrum may, under one aspect of my invention, be made so that its eccentricity is adjustable, which can be done as shown in Fig. 13, where the drum 1 is shown as provided with an undercut groove or key-seat in which is removably inserted a key 116, serving to enlarge the operative maximum radius of the drum at this point, and thus cause it to take up more slack of the apron than it would do otherwise.

In order to rotate the eccentric drum 1, suitable rotating mechanism is employed-for example, as follows: The base-plate C6 is provided with a bearing-block 24, Figs. 1 and 6, in which is secured a stud 19, upon which are mounted loosely a cam 18, having a camgroove 17, a ratchet-wheel 25, Fig. 15, and a gear-Wheel 1O, the ratchet-wheel and gearwheel being united in any suit-able wayas, for example, by casting them in one piece. Upon the end of the cam 18is pivoted a pawllever 26, normally pressed into engagement plate a.

with the ratchet-wheel 25 by a spring 27, secured to the end of the cam, the end of the pawl-lever 26 being extended to engage a retractable stop device consisting of a bolt 48, Figs. 3 and 6, having slots through which pass screws, by means of which the bolt 48 is held to the base-plate a in a manner to per.- mit of longitudinal movement. In one of the slots aspring 49 is inserted, whereby the bolt 48 is forced outward. The bolt has a shoulder 85 for engagement by a retracting device, which will be described hereinafter.

The cam 18 is provided with a notch into which enters a roller 23, mounted on a longitudinally-movable bolt 21, pressed yieldingly toward the cam 18 by a spring 22, Fig. 4. In the cam-groove l7 enters an antitrictionroller 16, mounted on a stud projecting laterally from a rack-bar 14, which is longitudinally movable in a guide 15, secured to the base-plate ct, the rack-teeth of said rack-bar 14 projecting downward and engaging the pinion 13 on the shaft 8 of the eccentric drum 1.

Beneath the frame of the machine that is to say, beneath the baseplate a-is mounted a longitudinally-movable slide b, preferably T-shaped in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 9, and mounted in guides b bolted to the base-plate a. This slide is arranged to-be intermittingly reciprocated by any suitable means, such as that which is hereinafter described. The base-plate-tt is slotted at one place above this slide 1), as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, through which slot extends a stand ard 45, Fig. 5, secured to the top of the slide, a filler discharging or ejector rod 44 being adjustably mounted in the head of the said standard 45-as, for example, by mounting the enlarged end of the rod 44 in a hole in the head of said standard 45, to which the said rod may be clamped by a screw 45, Figs. 1, 2, and 5. The rod 44 is so located that its axis is parallel to and slightly below the roller 3 of the rolling mechanism. To the standard 45 is fixed a latch-releasing arm 46, having its end beveled or sloped and arranged to engage and lift the projecting end of the latch-lever 10, whereby the latter is freed from the nose 12. Near that end of the roller 3 which is opposite the ejector-rod 44 is a wrapper-holding tube 6, whose axis is in line with the axis of the ejector-rod 44. This tube 6 is held by an arm 6, fixed to the bracket d, shown in Figs. 6, 10, and 11.

In front of the rolling mechanism is located a tobacco-feeding mechanism, in this instance comprising an endless apron 101, passing over a small roller 103, carried in brackets 104, secured to the base-plate a, and over a large roller or drum 105, mounted in brackets 106, also secured to the base-plate a. The upper portion of the endless apron 101 passes over a table 102, which is also secured to the base- (See Figs. 1 and The large roller or drum 105 has a ratchet-wheel 107 fixed to its axis, which ratchet-wheel is engaged by a pawl 109 on the end of a pawl-lever 108, pivoted at 112 to the end of a pawl-operating lever 110 and normally pressed into engagement with its ratchet-wheel 107 by means of a spring 111, Fig. 9. The pawl-operating lever 110 is pivoted to a hanger 34, secured to the bottom of the base-plate a, and is normally drawn upward by a spring 115, secured to the said lever 110 and to an eye in the bottom of the base-plate (b. The pawl-operating lever 110 is actuated by means of the slide b, which is provided with an inclined notch in its under surface for that purpose, as shown at b Fig. 14. In order to limit the upward stroke of the pawl-lever 108 and at the same time permit of the adjustment of the throw of said lever, a stop-screw 114 is provided, being secured upward into the base-plate a in such a position that its head will be struck by the upper surface of the pawl-operating leverl10. The latter lever is guided in aslotted hanger 113.

For the purpose of removing a certain amount of tobacco from the feeding-apron 101, as will be more fully explained hereinafter, a sweeping or scraping and pressing mechanism is provided, which comprises a scraper 91 and means for operating the same, said means consisting, preferably, of the following structure: The scraper 91 is fixed to the end of a scraper-arm 87, which has its op posite end connected to a wrist-pin 88, secured to a gear-wheel 81, fixed on a shaft 79, mounted in bearings 80, fastened to the baseplate Ct. At a point intermediate the ends of the scraper-arm 87 the latteris provided with a laterally-extending stud,on which is mounted a roller 89, which enters a cam-slot in the side of a gear-wheel 83, this cam-slot having a substantially circular portion 90, whose center of curvature is eccentric to the gear-wheel 83,and a substantially radial portion 92,which opens into the circular portion 90, as shown in Figs. 10 and 11. The gear-wheel 83 is mounted in suitable hearings on the baseplate and is of the same diameter as the gearwheel 81, being driven from and in the same direction as said wheel 81 by an idler-wheel 82, also mounted in hearings on the baseplate a. The scraper-arm 87 is connected to a spring 93, whose other end is secured to the base-plate a. The gear-wheel 83 is provided with a lateral]y-extending tripper-pin 96, arranged to engage a crank-arm 98 on the end of a rock-shaft 97, mounted in a bearing 117,

fixed to the base-plate a, said shaft 97 having another crank-arm 99, connected by a link 100 to the frame 7, which carries the roller 4. To the inner end of the shaft 79 is secured a stop-retracting device consisting of a collar 84, Fig. 14, having a nose or wiper 86, arranged to engage the shoulder 85 on the stop device or bolt 48. Upon the shaft 79, between its two bearings 80, is fixed a spiral gear- Wheel 78, arranged to mesh withacorresponding spiral gear-wheel 72, fixed on a shaft 73 at right angles to the shaft 79 and mounted in bearings 95 on the base-plate a. Upon the shaft 73 is mounted loosely a gear-wheel 71 in mesh with the gear-wheel 40. The gearwheel 71 is arranged to be locked to its shaft 73 by a suitable clutch 74, operated by clutclr lever 75, having a forked arm 76, which engages a groove in the periphery of the clutch 7 1 in the usual way.

To the base-plate a is fixed a stud 13, on which are loosely mounted a gear-wheel 42 and a pinion 41, the two being secured together in any suitable manner, as by casting them in one piece. The pinion 41 meshes with the gear-wheel eL-O, while the gear-Wheel 42 is in mesh with a gear-wheel 50, Figs. 1 and 2, which is arranged to be driven by suitable means, as will be explained hereinafter.

The operation of the apparatus thus far described is as follows: The tobacco is spread by hand in a layer upon the endless apron 101, which is caused to travel toward the fillerrolling mechanism in an intermittent manner by the action of the slide 1) and spring 115 upon the pawl-operating lever 110, which causes a reciprocation of the said lever 110, and thereby a movement of the pawl-lever 108, which being held in engagement with the ratchet-wheel 107 by the spring 111 produces an intermittent rotation of the drum 105, and therewith a movement of the apron 101 in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 9. The table 102 supports the upper portion of the endless apron and the tobacco laid thereon, thus taking the strain off the apron. At the time when the apron 101 is stationary the scraper or sweeping device 91 is operated to scrape or sweep the tobacco charge from the apron to the filler-rolling apparatus and into the bight of the apron thereof. This operation of the sweeping or scraping device is as follows: The gear-wheel 81 is rotated from the wheel 50 through the gears 12 41 4:0 71, clutch mechanism 74, and right-angle gears 72 and 78. From the gear-wheel 81 the gearwheel 83 is rotated by the idler-wheel 82 in the same direction and at the same angular velocity, because the gear-wheels 81 and 83 are of the same diameter. Thus the two gearwheels 81 and 83 are moved in unison with each other. The gear-wheel 81, owing to its wrist-pin connection with the scraper-arm 87, serves to draw the latter, and with it the scraper 91, in a horizontal direction, while the cam-slot in the side of the gear-wheel 83 coacting with the spring 93 serves to give the scraper-arm 87 the desired motion in the vertical direction, the spring 03 drawing the arm 87 downward whenever the cam-slot permits it. As the circular portion of the cam-slot is eccentric to the gear-wheel 83 and also owing to the arrangement of the radial portion 92, the scraper 91 is moved along that portion of the endless apron 101 nearest the filler-rolling mechanism in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 9 and scrapes a portion of the tobacco from the said endless apron 101 into the bight of the apron 5,-the cam-slot permitting this because its radial portion 92 is then substantially horizontal, as shown in Fig. 9, and allows the gear-wheel 81 to draw the roller 89 on the arm 87 along said radial portion. By the time this is done the gear-wheel 83 has rotated so as to bring its radial portion 92 into a position approaching the vertical, as shown in Fig. 10, whereby the spring 93 is allowed to draw the scraper-arm downward suddenly, thus causing the scraper 91 to strike the charge of tobacco in the bight of the apron and press or pack the said charge. If desired, more than one radial cam portion may be provided in the gear-wheel 83 in order to cause the scraper to strike the tobacco charge more than once. (See Fig. 12.) The continued rotation of the gear-wheels s1 and 83 causes the scraper to rise out of the bight of the apron 5 to the position shown in Fig. 11, after which it moves back to its original position to again commence its cycle of oper ations.

The filler-rolling mechanism operates as follows: Atthe time the scraper-arm 91 is sweeping the tobacco charge toward the saidfillerrolling mechanism the movable roller 4 is at its position of greatest distance from the stationary roller 3, while the eccentric drum 1 is stationary, with its depressed portion facing upward. (See Figs. 7 and 13.) At this time the bight of the apron 5 is at its maximum size and its bottom rests in said depressed portion of the drum 1, so that when the scraper 91 strikes the tobacco charge in the bight of the apron 5 the pressure of the blow is received by the drum 1 and not by the apron 5. So soon as the scraper 91 is raised clear of the filler-rolling mechanism the stud or pin 96 engages the arm 98, moving the crank-arm and link 100, thus drawing up the frame 7, and with it the movable roller 4, and bringing the latter toward and into actual contact with the stationary roller 3. While this is being done, the latch-lever 10 slides along the nose 12, being kept in close contact with said nose by the tension of the spring 11, so that when the roller 4: is at its position of closest approach to the roller 3 the notch of the latch-lever 10 engages the nose 12 and locks the rollers 3 and 4 in said position of nearest approach. At this moment the rotation of the shaft 79 has brought the arm or wiper 86 into engagement with the nose 85. The continued rotation of the shaft 79 causes the bolt or stop device 48 to be retracted,th us releasing the pawl-le ver 26, which is then drawn into engagement with the ratchet-wheel 25. In this way the cam 18 is locked to said ratchet-wheel 25 and is rotated with the latter, making one complete revolution, at the end of which the pawl-lever 26 strikes against the end 48 of the bolt 47, which has been returned to its original position by the action of its spring 49 after the passage of the wiper 86 on the shaft 79. The pawl-lever 26 is thus retracted from engagement with the ratchet-wheel 25 and the cam 181s stopped,the

roller 20 being pressed int-o the notch in said cam by the action of the spring 22, whereby all danger of the cam being carried past its initial position is avoided. The cam during its rotation from the initial position around to the same position again forces the rack-bar 14 in one direction, thereby causing the rotation of the pinion 13 to the required extent, whereupon the cam moves the rack-bar 14 in the opposite direction to a slight extent and then holds it stationary for a short interval, after which it fully retracts the rack-bar to its normal position. These movements of the rack-bar are produced by the special form of the cam-slot 17, which will be fully understood from Fig. 16 of the drawings, which figu re shows a developed View of the cam-slot. At the time when the rack-bar 14 moves in the first direction and causes a complete rotation of the pinion 13 the latter, being fixed on the same shaft 8 with the eccentric drum 1, causes a similar rotation of said drum, whereby the portion of said drum of maximum eccentricity is brought to that side of the drum which is opposite the rollers 3 and 4, thus drawing up the apron 5, so as to decrease the size of the bight of said apron, shown in full lines in Fig. 8, and at the same time causes a longitudinal movement of said apron. This reduction in the size of the bight and the longitudinal movement of the apron causes the rolling of the cigarette-filler under pressure against the rollers 3 and 4. 80 soon as the first complete rotation of the eccentric drum 1 has been finished the said drum is moved slightly backward by the small amount of retraction of the rack-bar 14 by the cam 18, as hereinabove explained, and thus the bight of the apron 5 is slightly increased in size, or, in other words, the cavity which receives the filler is expanded, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 8, so that the pressure on the rolled filler is reduced and the filler is held somewhat more loosely in the filler-rolling mechanism. At this moment the eccentric drum remains stationary, because the cam-slot 17 of the cam 18 at that time receiving the roller 16 of the rack-bar 14 is in a plane at right angles to the axis of the cam 18, and hence the rotation of the cam at that time has no effect on the rack-bar 14. During the stationary condition of the eccentric drum in its slightly-retracted position the slide 1) is set in motion, and the ejector-rod 44 is thereby brought up and caused to enter the bight of the apron and to travel across the same transversely, thereby discharging the filler by forcing the same out through the wrappertnbe e into the wrapper at that time clamped thereon, as more fully explained hereinafter. The continued longitudinal movement of the ejector-rod and the release of the wrapper by the wrapper-clamping device cause the completed cigarette to be pushed off the tube eand onto the mechanism for removing the cigarette. As the slide 6 is moved forward for the purpose of thus discharging the filler into the wrapper and removing the completed cigarette from the tube 6 the arm 46, secured to the ejector-rod standard 45, rides under the end of the latch-lever 10 and lifts the same out of engagement with the nose 12, whereupon the spring 9 will draw the movable roller 4away' from the stationary roller 3, and thus open the filler-rolling apparatus to allow it to receive a new charge of tobacco. Just prior to this opening of the filler-rolling apparatus the cam 18 retracts the rack-bar 14 to its original position, and thereby rotates the cocentric drum 1 to its normal position, thus allowing the apron 5 to again hang in a bight between the rollers 3 and 4, as shown in Fig. 7. The machine is now ready to proceed With the manufacture of another cigarette.

The means for operating the slide 1) may be, for example, as follows: Upon the cam1'8 is fixed a trip-arm 28, which is arranged to engage an inclined nose 29 on a standard 30, Figs. 3 and 5, fixed to a lever 31, pivoted in the hanger 34, said lever 31 being pressed down by a spiral spring 36, surrounding a rod 35, movable through a hole in the base-plate c and provided with a ring above the baseplate, by means of which the lever 31 may be pulled up at its end in order to set the slideoperating mechanism in operation by hand. The lever 31 is connected to a lever 33, for example, by a pin-and-slot connection, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 9, and 14, in which the pin is indicated by the reference-numeral 32. The lever-33 is pivotedon a hanger-arm 61, Figs. 1 and 2, and at its free end is provided with a detent 62 and a laterally-projecting pin 63 for a purpose hereinafter described. The gear-wheel 50, which drives the train of gears for actuating the tobacco-rolling mechanism, is loosely mounted on a shaft 60, mounted in suit-able bearings 66,'carried by the frameworkfof the machine, as shown in Figs. 18 and 19. To the said gear-wheel 50 are connected a belt-pulley 58 and a ratchetwheel 67, which are also loosely mounted on the shaft 60. On said shaft 60 is also loosely mounted a cam 64, having a nose 118, arranged to be caught and held by the detent 62 when the free end of the lever 33 is in its lowest position. On said cam 64 is pivoted a bell-crank pawl-lever 65, whose pawl-tooth is arranged for engagement with the ratchetwheel 67 and is pressed yieldingly toward said ratchetwheel by the spring 70, which is arcshaped, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and has one end fixed to the cam 64. The free end of the pawl-lever is arranged to be engaged by the pin 63 on the lever 33,whereby the pawl-lever is drawn out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel 67. The cam 64 is provided with a laterally-extending clu-tch member 64*, arranged to engage its corresponding clutch member 68, mounted on the shaft 60 and splined to the same in order to permit of the longitudinal movement of said clutch member, while at the same time compelling the shaft 60 to rotate with it. The said clutch IIO member 68 is pressed yieldingly toward the clutch member 64 by a spiral spring 69, surrounding the shaft and confined between the clutch member 68 and one of the bearings 66 of said shaft. In order that the clutch formed by the two clutch members 64 and 68 may be held in their open position when desirable, a holding device is employed, consisting in the present instance of an arm 150, having a slot into which enter two studs 151, secured in the adjacent bearings 66, one of which studs is provided with a wing-nut, by means of which the arm 150 may be clamped rigidly to the said bearing 66 of the shaft 60. One end of the arm 150 is provided with an inturned lug 152, arranged to project into a peripheral groove in the clutch member 68, while the other end of said arm 150 is turned outward to serve as a handle 153 for the convenient operation of the arm 150. Upon the shaft 60 is fixed an eccentric and strap 57, an eccentric-rod 56 being connected at one end to the strap and joined at its other end by a slotand-pin connection to a lever 54, fulcru med on a bracket 55, fixed to the framef, said lever 54 being forked at its upper end for engagement with an antifriction-roller 53, mounted 011 the slide 1). One end of the shaft 60 is provided with a hand-wheel 59 for operating the slide 1) by hand when so desired. The operation of this slide-actuating mechanism is as follows: hen the belt-wheel 58 is rotated by suitable power, it carries with it the gear-wheel 50 and the ratchet-wheel 67, the former driving the tobacco-rolling mechanism through the train of gears 42 44, 850., as has been previously described. When the cam 18 is rotated, its trip-arm 28 strikes the nose 29, pushing down the standard 30 and operating the levers 31 and 33, thereby raising the free end of lever 33 and releasing the pawl-lever and the cam 64. Thereupon thepawl-lever 65 is thrown into engagement with the ratchet-wheel 67 by the spring 70, and the cam 64 and ratchetwheel 67 are locked together, thus causing the rotation of the said cam 64, which rotation is transmitted to the shaft 60 through the clutch members 64 and 68 and the spline connection of the latter with the shaft 60. When the shaft 60 rotates, it carries with it the eccentric 57, and thereby oscillates the lever 54, which reciprocates the slide 1). soon as the shaft 60 has made one revolution the free end of the bellrcrank pawl-lever 65 is brought into engagement with the pin 63 on the lever 33, which has previously been dropped to its normal position after it has been raised by the trip-arm 28. The pin 63 causes the pawl-lever 65 to be raised out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel 67, whereby the shaft 60 is released from the driving mechanism, and at this moment the nose 118 on the cam 64 engages the detent 62 on the end of the lever 33 J and is positively stopped thereby.

For the purpose of supplying the wrappers to the tube e any suitable means may be employedas, for example, the wrapper supplying and clamping mechanism and the cigarette removing and packing mechanism shown in my Patent No. 555,369, issued February 25, 1896-the only changes necessary in making the connection between the two mechanisms being in the mounting of the feed roller or drum so as not to interfere with the slide 1) and in the connection between the wrapperelampingdeviceand theslide. 'lhesechanges are as follows: The wrapper-s11pplying drum 121 consists of a hollow cylinder mounted on bearing-rings 120, carried from the bed-plate a, as shown in Figs. 2, l7, and 18, the slide 1) passing longitudinally through the interior of the drum 121 and bearing-rings 120. The drum 121 is provided with a peripheral groove at one end to receive a belt 134, which communicates motion from the drum 121 to the rotary brush 133. Outside the said groove of the dru m 121 is a ratchet-toothed ring 124, secured to said drum and arranged to be engaged by the pawl-tooth of a pawl-lever 125, fulcrumcd on a standard 127 and normally pressed toward the ratchet-toothed ring 124 by a spring 126, secured to the standard. The latter also carries a spring-arm 132, which rests above the grooved portion of the drum 121 and serves to hold lightly the cigarettewrappers and completed cigarettes. The standard 127 is carried by a sliding block 128, carried in'guideways 128, secured to the under side of the bed-plate a. The standard is provided with a stem 130, passing through a lug 130 secured to the under side of the bedplate a. The stem 130 is surrounded by a spring 131, which presses the sliding block yieldingly toward the slide 1). The said sliding block 128 carries an arm 128, which is provided with a roller 129, arranged to ride along the edge of one of the flanges of the slide 1) and to enter a notch I) (see Fig. 21) in said flange when the notch comes opposite the roller 129. The latter is forced to enter the notch by the action of the spring 131 and is moved in the opposite direction by the movement of the slide 1), owing to the inclined portion at one end of said notch 12, as will be clear from Fig. 21. In this way the sliding block 128 is reciprocated and the pawl-lever 125 caused to intermittingly rotate the ratchettoothed ring 124, and with it the drum 121, at that moment when a cigarette has just been completed and forced back to its proper groove in the drum 121 by the ejector-rod 44. At the same time the rotation of the drum rotates the brush 133 to wipe back any surplus of cigarette-tubes which might otherwise be taken up by the grooves in the drum 121.

The wrapper clamping mechanism for clamping the cigarette wrappers or tubes to the holder 6 consists in the present instance of a spring-arm 142, fixed at one end to a bracket 144, secured to the side of the wrap per-tube feed-trough 135. The spring-arm 142 carries a light leaf-spring 143, which is intended to bear lightly against the under side of a wrapper when the latter is on the wrapper-holder a when the said wrapper is to be clamped in place. Thefree end of the springarm 142 carries a draft-rod 145, projecting through an opening in the bed-plate a, as shown in Fig. 20, and provided at its lower end with a roller 146, arranged to ride along a spring-rail147', secured at one end to a bracket 14S, fixed to the slide 19, the said spring-rail tending to press the spring-arm 14:2 upward, thus forcing the light leaf-spring 143 against the wrapper at that time in place upon the tube or holder 6.

The clamping mechanism is released by a cam-block 149, secured to the slide 1) and provided with an inclined end which is arranged to engage the roller 146 and force the same downward against the action of the springrail147, thus drawing down the draft-arm 145 and withdrawing theleaf-spring 143 from contact with the wrapper, thus leaving the latter free to be removed.

The construction and operation of the reciprocating pusher in this machine are somewhat dilferent from that of the corresponding device shown in my patent hereinbefore re ferred to and will now be described. The said pusheris indicated at 137 in Figs. 1 and 2 and consists of a rod having a head arranged to engage the end of the cigarette tube or wrapper-and push the said wrapper onto the tube or holder 6. The pusher passes loosely through a bearing or support 140, fixed to the baseplate a of the machine, and also through the upper end of a standard 139, fixed to the slide 1), said pusher being provided with adjustable collars 138 at each side of the standard 139. When the slide 1) is reciprocated, as has been described hereinbefore, the standard 139 is carried with it and strikes the respective collar 138 on the pusher 137, thereby moving the latter in the same direction as the slide. The collars 138 are so adjusted that the movement of the pusher 137 will just be suiiicient to push a wrapper onto the holder 6 and then to return far enough to clear the drum 121.

At 123, Fig. 2, I have indicated one of the grooves between the partitions or ridges of the drum 121, one of said partitions being indicated at 122, Fig. 2.

At latl I have shown the hopper device by means of which the completed cigarettes will be conducted to any suitable receptacle. (Not shown.)

It is to be understood that the mechanisms hereinbelore described in connection with the drawings are intended only as exemplifications or illustrative embodiments of my invention, and my invention is not to be restricted to the particular mechanisms or combinations of mechanisms shown and specifically described herein. It is manifest also that the independent use of the various mechanisms separately considered is desired to be protected,'since such separate mechanisms may each be used in machines in which the other mechanisms are not employed without departing from or avoiding my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In acigaretteanachine, the combination with a pair of rollers, of an eccentric drum, an apron passing around said rollers and drum and hanging in a bight, and means for rotating said drum, whereby the apron is moved and the bight is varied in size.

2, In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a pair of rollers, and an eccentric drum, of an apron secured to said drum and hanging in a bight between the rollers, and means for rotating the drum.

8. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with an eccentric drutn having a projecting portion and a depressed portion, of an apron, means for supporting said apron so as to form a bight normally resting in the depressed portion of the eccentric drum, and means for rotating the drum whereby the projecting portion presses against the apron and reduces the size of the bight.

4. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with an eccentric drum, an apron, and means for supporting said apron so as to form a bight, of means for rotating the drum whereby the size of the bight of the apron is varied as the drum rotates, and means for altering the eccentricity of the drum, whereby the amount of variation of the size of the bight is altered.

5. In a cigarettennachine, the combination with an apron, and means for supporting said apron so as to form a bight, of an eccentric roller, means for rotating saidroller, and a rib detachably secured to said drum, and arranged to act against the apron, whereby the size of the bight is varied as the drum rotates.

6. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a pair of rollers, an apron supported by said rollers and arranged to hang in a bight between said rollers, means for moving said apron, and means for varying the size of the bight, of a wheel, a trip-pin extending laterally from said wheel, an arm in the path of said pin, a crank-arm connected to said arm, and connections between the crank-arm and one of the rollers, whereby the said roller is moved toward and from the other roller by the rotation of the wheel.

7. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, of a gear-- with a filler-rolling mechanism, of a gearwhcel for operating the same, a rack-bar for operating said gear-wheel, a cam for actuating the rack-bar, mechanism for rotating the cam, a pawl-and-ratchet device intermediate the cam and its operating mechanism, whereby they are locked together, and means for disengaging the pawl and ratchet after one revolution of the cam, whereby the latter is released from its operating mechanism.

9. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, and a gearwheel for operating the same, of a rack-bar engaging the gear-Wheel, a cam for operating the rack-bar, a pawl-lever carried by the cam, a cam-operating mechanism, a ratchet device connected to the cam-operating mechanism and arranged to be engaged by the pawl, and means for releasing the pawl from the ratchet device after one revolution of the cam.

10. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a fillerrolling mechanism, a cam, and connections between the cam and the filler-rolling mechanism, whereby the latter is operated by the cam, of means for rotating the cam and means for stopping the cam at a predetermined point in its rotation.

11. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, and a cam for operating the same, said cam having a notch, of a bolt device arranged to enter said notch and hold the cam at a predetermined point.

12. Inacigarette-machine,thecombination with a pair of rollers, an apron supported by said rollers to form a bight, and means for moving said rollers toward and from each other, of a latch device arranged to hold said rollers at their point of nearest approach, a slide, means for moving the slide, and an arm carried by the slide and arranged to release the latch device.

13. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a filler-rolling mechanism, a cam for actuating the same, and means for operating the cam, of a pawl-and-ratchet device for locking the cam to its operating means, a stop device arranged to release the pawl from the ratchet, and a stop-retracting mechanism for withdrawing the stop from engagement with the pawl.

14. In a cigarette-machine the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, of discharging means independent of the filler-rolling mech anism for discharging the filler and means for operating the filler-rolling mechanism and the said discharging means.

15. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, of transferring means arranged to transfer a rolled filler from the filler-rolling mechanism to a wrapper and means for operating the filler-rolling mechanism and the said transferring means.

16. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, of transferring means, and mechanism for causing said transferring means to enter the filler-rolling mechanism and transfer the filler therefrom to a Wrapper.

17. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a filler-rolling mechanism, of transversely-operating discharging means for discharging the filler from said filler rolling mechanism and means for operating the fillerrolling mechanism and the said discharging means.

18. Inacigarette-machine,thecombination with a filler-rolling mechanism, of an ejector arranged to discharge the filler from said rolling mechanism, and a wrapper-holding device arranged to hold a wrapper. so as to receive the filler when discharged from the fillerrolling mechanism.

19. Inacigarette-machine,thecombination with a filler-rolling mechanism, an ejector, means for pushing the ejector through the filler-rollin g mechanism to discharge the filler, and a wrapper-holding device arranged to hold a wrapper so as to receive said filler, substantially as described.

20. Inacigarette-machine,the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, an ejector, a slide to which said ejector is attached, means for moving the slide to force the ejector through the filler-rolling mechanism, and a wrapper-holding device in line with the ejector, and opposite the same.

21. Inacigarette-machine,thecombination with an apron and means for supporting'said apron to form a bight, of an ejector-rod, means for forcing said ej ector-rod through said bight, and mechanism for holding a Wrapper opposite the bight so as to receive a filler from said bight.

22. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a filler-rolling mechanism having a cavity to receive the filler, of means arranged to first close the filler-roller mechanism,then expand the cavity, and, finally, open said filler-rolling mechanism, said means being so arranged as to cause a resting of the filler-rolling mechanism after the cavity is expanded.

23. Inacigarette-n1achine,the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism having a cavity to receive the filler, of means arranged to first close the filler-roller mechanism, then expand the cavity, and, finally, open said fillerrolling mechanism, said means being so arranged as to cause a resting of the fillerrolling mechanism after the cavity is expanded, and means for ejecting the filler while the cavity of the filler-rolling mechanism remains expanded.

24. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a filler-rolling mechanism having a cavity to receive the filler, of means arranged to first close the filler-roller mechanism, then expand the cavity, and finally open said filler-rolling mechanism, said means being so arranged as to cause a resting of the filler-rolling mechanism after each of these i changes in its condition.

25. In a cigarette-machine the combination with an apron and means for supporting said apron to form a bight, means for decreasing and then increasing the size of the bight, an ejector-rod, means for forcing said ejectorrod through said bight, and mechanism for holding a wrapper opposite the bight, so as to receive a filler from said bight.

26. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with an apron, and means for supporting said apron to form a bight, of means for first de-' creasing and then slightlyincreasing the size of the bight and then retaining it in its slightly-increased size, an ejector-rod, means for forcing said ejector-rod through said bight when it has been slightly increased in size, and means for holding a wrapperopposite the bight so as to receive a filler from said bight.

27. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, of a tobaccofeeding apron, for feeding tobacco toward the filler-rollingmechanism,adrumaround which said apron passes, a ratchet-wheel secured to said drum, a pawl-lever provided with a pawl engaging said ratchet-wheel, a slide provided with a notch to receive the pawl-lever, means for yieldingly forcing the pawl-lever into said notch, and means for operating the slide.

28. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a scraper,of means for moving the scraper first horizontally and then downward, whereby the scraper first scrapes otE the tobacco charge and then depresses it.

29. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a fillerrolling mechanism, of a scraper, and means for moving the scraper first horizontally and then downward, whereby the scraper first draws the tobacco into the filler-rolling mechanism, and then depresses it therein.

30. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with an apron, means forsupporting the apron to form a bight, and means for opening and closing the bight, of means for charging tobacco into said bight, means for varying the size of the bight, means for moving the apron in the direction of its length, wherebya filler is rolled, and means independent of the apron for discharging said filler from the bight.

31. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with an apron formed into a bight, and means for opening and closing the bight, of means for charging tobacco into said bight, means for varying the size of the bight, means for moving the apron in the direction of its length, whereby a filler is rolled, and means independent of the a ron for discharging said filler from the bight efore the same is opened.

32. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with an apron. formed into a bight, and means for causing said bight to roll a filler, of means independent of the apron for discharging said filler.

33. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with an apron formed into a bight, and means for causing said bight to roll a filler, of atransverselyar-ting ejector arranged to eject a filler from said bight.

34. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with an apron, means for supporting the apron to form a bight, means for opening and closing thebight, and means for charging tobacco into the bight, of means for varying the size of the bight, means for moving the apron in the direction of its length, whereby a filler is rolled, a wrapper-clam ping device for holding a wrapper, and means for discharging the filler into the wrapper.

35. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a filler-rolling mechanism, and mechanism for charging the same with tobacco, of a wrapper-clamping device for holding a wrapper, means for discharging the filler from the filler-rolling device into the wrapper, and a wrapper-supplying device for su pplying wrappers to the wrapper-clamping device.

36. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a scraper, and an arm to which said scraper is connected, of a gear having a Wristpin to which said arm is connected, a second gear-wheel having acam-slot and connections between the cam-slot and the arm, whereby the latter is moved by the rotation of the gear-wheels.

37. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with a scraper, and an arm to which the scraper is connected,ot' a gear-wheel provided with a wrist-pin to which one end of the arm is connected, a second gear-wheel provided with a cam-slot connection between the arm and the cam-slot, whereby the arm is moved by the two gear-wheels and means for operating the gear-wheels in unison;

38. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with a scraper, an arm to which the scraper is connected and a gear-wheel provided with a wrist-pin to which the arm is connected, of a second 'gear wheel provided with a camslot comprising a substantially circular portion and a radial portion connected therewith, means on the arm for engaging said cam-slot, and means for rotating the gearwheel.

39. In a cigarette-machine,the combination with a fillerrolling mechanism, an endless apron arranged to feed tobacco toward the filler-rolling mechanism, and a scraper, of an arm to which said scraper is connected, a gear-wheel provided with a wrist-pin to which one end of the arm is connected, a second gear-wheel having a cam-slot, means secured to the arm for engaging the cam-slot,an idlerwheel connecting the two gear-wheels, and means for rotating the first-mentioned gearwheel whereby the scraper is first drawn over the apron to charge the filler-rolling mechanism with tobacco, then presses the charge in the filler-rolling mechanism and finally rises out of the same.

40. Inacigarette-machine,the combination with an ejector-rod, a tobacco-feeding mech- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature anism, and a slide for actuating said ejector in presence of two Witnesses. rod and tobacco-feeding mechanism, of a EMIL GEORGE scraping and pressing mechanism, means for 5 operating the same, and mechanism set. in Witnesses:

action by said operating means for operating A. B. DRAUTZ,

the slide. FUL. HALUPERMANN. 

